By Ben Evans, on March 13th, 2020
Sunday’s launch will mark the fifth flight of this particular booster. Photo: SpaceX
UPDATE – Launch was aborted just before liftoff. No word yet on a new date for the next launch attempt.
For the first time on Sunday, a five-times-used Falcon 9 booster will spear aloft from historic Pad 39A at the […]
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By Mike Killian, on February 19th, 2018
The first Block 5 variant of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, their final variant of the booster, was seen traveling on I-8 in Yuma, AZ this weekend en route to the company’s testing grounds in McGregor, TX. Photo Courtesy: Alison Morgan via u/tvgenius on Reddit (used with permission)
SpaceX’s long awaited first “Block 5” […]
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By Ken Kremer, on December 23rd, 2014 An artist concept of SpaceX Crew Dragon approaching the Interantional Space Station. Credit: NASA/SpaceX
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL — Moving briskly forward, SpaceX has completed the first milestone under the new Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract recently awarded by NASA that will eventually lead to construction of the crewed Dragon V2 spaceship […]
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By Mike Killian, on June 26th, 2014 SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell and the Falcon-9 v1.1 rocket tasked with delivering the OG2 payload to orbit for customer ORBCOMM. Image Credits: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace / SpaceX
Last weekend Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) made three attempts to launch six next-generation telecommunications satellites (mission OG2) for customer ORBCOMM, but […]
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By Mike Killian, on April 16th, 2014 SpaceX has finalized a lease agreement with NASA for use of launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the launch site for many historic missions such as the Apollo Saturn-V Moon missions and over 80 space shuttle launches. The company’s first launch off 39A will be atop their Falcon-Heavy rocket as […]
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By Emily Carney, on March 26th, 2014 SpaceX’s Dragon capsule is seen berthed at the International Space Station (ISS) during the CRS-2 mission in early 2013. SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell discussed the upcoming CRS-3 mission on The Space Show. Photo Credit: NASA
SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell was featured on the March 21 […]
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By Mike Killian, on January 19th, 2014 The SpaceX main parachutes control the descent of the Dragon test article (RIGHT) following a drop test over the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Morro Bay, Calif. On the left, a test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft touches down in the Arizona desert after its most complicated parachute test to date. Photos […]
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By Jason Rhian, on September 1st, 2013 SpaceX’s customer on the upcoming launch of the Cassiope mission, MacDonald Ditwiller & Associates Inc., has blocked all media from covering the launch. This is the latest in a series of issues relating to SpaceX’s media relations. Image Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has had its fair share of […]
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By Jason Rhian, on August 30th, 2013 The first launch of a Falcon 9 rocket has been delayed five days. Photo Credit SpaceX
The first launch of Space Exploration Technologies’ (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on the first mission not relating to a NASA initiative, will have to wait a bit longer. Liftoff of […]
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By David Darling, on August 16th, 2013 An unmanned Dragon spacecraft conducting the Commercial Resupply Services mission is seen here (CRS-2) grappled by the International Space Station. Photo Credit: NASA
Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has just passed the seventh of 15 development milestones set by NASA’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative. Along with Boeing and Sierra Nevada […]
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